Fox lies and America pays the price. Sean Hannity's latest witch hunt against anything good and decent has found yet another victim in Kevin Jennings. The Obama administration employee whom Czar Hannity, mad with power, calls a "safe schools Czar," has been accused of ignoring or not reporting the sexual abuse of a minor. Of course not only is Jennings not the absolute monarch of anyplace, he's only Assistant Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools (OSDFS) and more importantly, the story isn't true.
Hannity lies and one more piece of justice dies. Of course Fox sometimes quietly retracts a story after the damage has been done -- as they have with the story insisting that Jennings one ignored a report of sexual relations between a minor student and an older man, but such lies have momentum and the mad dogs of the GOP are issuing demands that he be fired for promoting a "radical gay agenda" they would like you to believe includes the exploitation of children by gay teachers.
Fifty-three House Republicans have written President Barack Obama calling on him to fire Jennings. Jennings isn't a Czar of any kind and the gay "child" in question was above the age of consent, but Jennings is also gay and Jennings has spent a lot of time trying to make schools safer for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Such things infuriate bigots and witch hunting religious idiots and Retro-Republican trolls and Fox is happy to fan the flames regardless of who burns as long as those ratings stay high.
The disgusting, shit-eating cockroaches calling themselves the Family Research Council (FRC) launched the “Stop Kevin Jennings” campaign this week, warning that he is a
“radical homosexual activist” who has “worked tirelessly to bring the homosexual agenda into our nation’s classrooms.”
None of these people care that the story was a lie or that the accusation is a lie. Even if Fox were to give serious time recanting it ( and ten thousand other lies) it wouldn't matter. The excuse to persecute heretics, to stomp all over freedom and justice is too valuable to let go. More foetid slime to fling at Democrats is far more valuable than truth or justice.
If a lie is as good as the truth, if preventing the abuse and promoting the safety of gay students is radical activism and if truth and justice for all is to be despised as the "Gay Agenda" then maybe it is time to stand up and say "Long live the Radical Gay Agenda!" Maybe it is time for those decent citizens to say we've had enough of the hate-stinking madmen with hate-foam on their lips and the lying enemies of freedom who whip them into a religious frenzy.
Is it any wonder the Republicans oppose hate crime legislation so vehemently? The persecution of Kevin Jennings is a hate crime and the lies of Fox are hate crimes and the Republican Party is the party of hate mongering, small mindedness, injustice and persecution of liberty. It's long past time to tell those values voters their values are evil and their deeds are evil and certainly at odds with anything this country claims it stands for. We get tens of thousands of armed idiots in the streets protesting a tax increase that's actually a decrease, but why is it that we sit by and let a good man be ruined and say nothing? Why is it that we keep watching Fox and giggling and never speak up? Is it because we're no better?
Oh, the Kevin Jennings jihad has been in the works for months. Back in September I received an e-mail from the VisionAmerica people (right wing Xtian group). It was a hastily thrown together fundraising thing about how they had "stopped ACORN" and telling you can blast-fax the U.S. Senate about ACORN with a small donation and their handy dandy online form.
ReplyDeleteExcept they accidentally left in a line about Kevin Jennings in there.
Ooops. (I blogged about it here.) Clearly the ACORN thing was a recycled Kevin Jennings release and they forgot to take his name off. You know, same e-mail, just change "Kevin Jennings" to "ACORN."
Hey, it's all the same to them. It's not like they have any REAL principles or anything. They just take their marching orders from the RNC.
It is more and more apparent that he GOP base is living in its own reality.
ReplyDeletefirst time here and see my friend Elizabeth as a writer, so you are going on my bloglist!
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing your name around blogland today and glad I found you!
What we have to understand is that Republicans don't hate gays. They just don't want them to be gay anymore, and barring that they want to not see or hear about the gayness. When we mention hate crimes, their poor minds are assaulted with the reality of gayness's existence. So if we'd just stop mentioning it, the hate would go away. But they don't hate gays. See how that works?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind the prurient interest of Republicans in the details of people's sex lives (other than that of fellow tribesmen) but they want to expand the power of government so far as to enforce their religious prejudices and irrational fears.
ReplyDeleteI often ask them why they want the government to have the power to kill but not to tax, the power to force you to acknowledge their religion, support their military endeavors, to search you and your property and records and listen to your communications but not to help save your life and your family from disease and injury - all in the name of smaller government.
You'll notice that I go nearly nuts when the "smaller government" parrots show up and this is why. They don't want smaller government -- they want authoritarian government for free.
They don't want smaller government -- they want authoritarian government for free.
ReplyDeletePerfectly said, Capt.